Guntín debuts its urban plan, effective in fifteen business days

The General Directorate of Urbanism of the Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure Planning has ordered the publication of the regulations and ordinances of the Basic Municipal Plan of the Municipality of Guntín, definitively approved by Order of October 22, 2026. The announcement appears in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lugo no. 258, corresponding to Tuesday, November 10, 2026, with reference R. 3054, and the plan will enter into force once fifteen business days have elapsed since that publication.

From regional approval to the BOP

The definitive approval of the document was adopted by the Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Planning through the aforementioned order, published in the Official Gazette of Galicia no. 210 on November 3, 2026. The plan was previously registered in the Registry of Land Management and Urban Planning of Galicia by resolution of the General Director of Urbanism on November 3, 2026.

The publication in the BOP responds to the mandate of article 82 of Law 2/2016, of February 10, on Galician Land, and articles 156.5 and 199 of Decree 143/2016, of September 22. The resolution is dated November 4, 2026, and is signed by the General Director of Urbanism, M.ª Encarnación Rivas Díaz.

An administrative-law appeal may be filed against the order before the High Court of Justice of Galicia within a period of two months, counted from the day following the publication, in accordance with articles 10 and 46 of Law 29/1998, of July 13.

Five ordinances for the entire municipal area

The objective of the plan is to delimit the existing rural nuclei, the lands with consolidated urban land conditions, and the categorization of rustic land. The scope of application covers the entirety of the municipal area and the validity is indefinite, with immediate execution upon entry into force.

The specific regulations are organized into 34 articles, distributed across three titles, and are completed with two additional provisions, one repealing provision, and one final provision. The particular ordinances are:

• PBA_O1, consolidated urban land for residential use with intensive building.
• PBA_O2, consolidated urban land for residential use with extensive building.
• PBA_O5, land destined for service network infrastructures.
• PBA_O8, traditional rural nucleus land.
• PBA_O9, common rural nucleus land.

Regarding subdivision parameters, the traditional rural nucleus ordinance sets a minimum area of 800 square meters and a frontage of 10 meters; the common rural nucleus ordinance raises the minimum to 1,200 square meters and the frontage to 15 meters, with areas of 2,500 square meters for row detail studies and resulting plots not less than 500 square meters.

Three subsisting rural nuclei and a single urban land

The council had ten rural nucleus delimitations previously definitively approved. The plan declares three of them to remain in effect, incorporating their physical delimitations and their minimum plots:

• Lousadela, in the parish of Santa María de Ferreira de Pallares, code 0403NRP, approved on July 20, 2010.
• A Veiga, in Santa Eulalia de Pradeda and Santa María de Monte de Meda, code 1403/2210NRP, approved on June 15, 2022.
• A Eirexe, in Santa Eulalia de Pradeda, code 2202NRP, approved on December 10, 2009.

Regarding consolidated urban land, the plan identifies a single settlement that meets the conditions of articles 16 and 17 of Law 2/2016: the nucleus of Guntín itself.

Roads, waters, biosphere reserve and wind farm

The annex of sectoral determinations requires prior authorization from the Galician Infrastructure Agency for parceling, segregations, accesses, and fences on plots bordering autonomous roads, an essential requirement before the municipal license. Regarding water, it limits uses in the preferential flow zone and in the flood plane with a return period of 500 years, and requires a discharge concession or authorization before new licenses in nuclei without public networks.

The plan also incorporates the zoning of the Terras do Miño Biosphere Reserve and transcribes the regulations of the Picato Wind Farm Project of Autonomous Interest, approved by the Council of the Xunta on October 20, 2022, and registered on November 18, 2022. For its substation, of 44.5 MW, a minimum plot of 5,000 square meters, a maximum occupancy of 2,740 square meters, and a maximum height of 4.27 meters are established, with a prohibition on building and planting trees within 200 meters of the center of each wind turbine.

The entry into force of the plan repeals previous urban land and rural nucleus delimitations, as well as any municipal provisions that oppose its content. This means that building licenses, parceling, and land uses in Guntín will now be governed by a single and homogeneous framework for the entire municipality, which directly affects owners, developers, and holders of agricultural and livestock operations.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Lugo, no. 258, November 10, 2026, pp. 1-71 (official reference: R. 3054).